A jury Monday found a 30-year-old alleged member of an Eastside gang guilty of lying in wait for a popular gang-intervention worker and shooting her to death in Boyle Heights last year. Jose Gilbert Gonzalez sat staring at the defense table as the Los Angeles Superior Court jury pronounced him guilty of first-degree murder, ambushing and gun charges in the May 13, 1992, slaying of Ana Lizarraga, 49, in the driveway of her Lancaster Avenue home.

A jury Monday found a 30-year-old alleged member of an Eastside gang guilty of lying in wait for a popular gang-intervention worker and shooting her to death in Boyle Heights last year. Jose Gilbert Gonzalez sat staring at the defense table as the Los Angeles Superior Court jury pronounced him guilty of first-degree murder, ambushing and gun charges in the May 13, 1992, slaying of Ana Lizarraga, 49, in the driveway of her Lancaster Avenue home.

A Boyle Heights woman who had dedicated her life to counseling youths away from gangs and served as a technical adviser on the Latino gang film "American Me" was gunned down execution-style in her driveway by two masked men, police said Thursday. Ana Lizarraga, 49, grew up tough in the Ramona Gardens housing project and spent the last 10 years as one of the top counselors with Community Youth Gang Services.

A Boyle Heights woman who had dedicated her life to counseling youths away from gangs and served as a technical adviser on the Latino gang film "American Me" was gunned down execution-style in her driveway by two masked men, police said Thursday. Ana Lizarraga, 49, grew up tough in the Ramona Gardens housing project and spent the last 10 years as one of the top counselors with Community Youth Gang Services.